For years I wondered what Bill Stickers was going to be prosecuted for. Ha-ha.
Back when, in Italy at least, the bill poster was a wonderful addition to the theatre of the street, Mimmo Rotella ripped and re-pasted Pop imagery. To me they appear both nihilistic and devotional.
These pieces are from the book, Early Works 1954-1967.
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| Il grande circo 1963 |
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| Stop 1963 |
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| Il muro de Berlino 1962 |
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| A minuit 1962 |
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| Una pelliccia di visone 1958 |
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| Untitled 1958 |
'One thing is the laceration I make in the street, when the poster appears to me as one of the highest moments in nature, and another is the laceration I make in my studios: the latter pertains to an order which is not merely natural but responds to my necessity of vision and of creation of something that must be, even as a "ready made," a metaphor of the world.'
These are great - I hadn't heard of Mimmo Rotella before but I love the work of Jacques Villeglé; these appeal for the same reasons, which I can't really explain but I guess it's that palimpsest thing. (You can tell I read the Sun.)
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